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and action, were subjects for frequent meditation and much 

 speculative thought. They are, more or less, attractive to 

 all active minds ; nor are such apparently supernatural 

 problems to be cast carelessly aside to the realm of the 

 impossible which, after all, is merely an undiscovered 

 country. There is a spiritual essence pervading the 

 universe, and in close relationship with matter, of which we 

 know nothing, but here and there highly sensitive natures 

 are supposed to feel its presence. In the graphic words of 

 Goethe, translated by Mr. Theodore Martin, we find tlie 

 idea of one subtle force governing the life of the material 

 world beautifully set forth 



" In the currents of life, in action's storm, 

 I wander and I wave ; 

 Everywhere I be ! 

 Birth and the grave 

 An infinite sea ; 

 A web ever glowing 

 Thus at Times' whizzing loom I spin 

 And weave the living vesture that God is mantled in." 



We have said that the region of the impossible is merely an 

 undiscovered country. It is this faith which has given the 

 world its grandest discoverers and greatest inventors. 



Very truly has Herschel said : "The perfect observer in 

 any department of science will have his eyes, as it were, 

 opened, that they may be struck at once by any occurrence 



